Program 9th EBM

Meeting2005

9TH EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY MEETING AT MARSEILLES

September 21,
08h-09h30 REGISTRATION AND POSTERS INSTALLATION
09h30-09h45 INTRODUCTION
GENOME EVOLUTION
09h45-10h10 Analysis of Polyploidization and Hybrid Vigor in Maize by Comparative Genomics – Abstract
Joachim Messing, Jinsheng Lai, Rentao Song1, and Zuzana Swigonova2
Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, New Jersey 08855, USA
1 School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, Peoples Republic of China
2 Medical Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15213
10h10-10h35 A new model for rapid_expression divergence, functional compensation, and duplicate gene
Preservation – Abstract
Xun Gu
Department of Genetics, Development & Cell Biology, Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics,
Iowa State University, USA
10h35-11h05 BREAK-POSTER SESSION
11h05-11h30 Protein folding, gene duplication and genome evolution – Abstract
David Liberles
11h30-11h55 Differential substitution rates correlation with ecological evolution in drosophila
Frederic G. Brunet, Ana Llopart, Jianming Zhang, Daniel Lachaise, Manyuan Long
11h55-12h20 Pro-orthology between the ciona genome and human paralongs identifies large duplication
events in the molecular evolution of the insulin_relaxin gene family
Robert Piotr Olinski, Lars-Gustav Lundin and Finn Hallbook
12h20-14h00 LUNCH
14h00-14h25 Gene duplications in evolution: from origin of the genetic code to the human genome – Abstract
Sergei N. Rodin1 & Andrei S. Rodin2
1 Theoretical Biology, Beckman Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
2 Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas – Houston, Houston, USA
14h25-14h50 Searching for new molecular markers for the phylogeny of the bilateria – Abstract
Jordi Paps, Jaume Buguna and Marta Riutort
14h50-15h05 FLASHES PRESENTATION pp1, pp2, pp3
15h05-16h05 BREAK-POSTER SESSION
16h05-16h30 Deleterious genomic mutation rate in drosophila melanogaster using concomitant sibling
controls – Abstract
R. C. Woodruff1 and J. N. Thompson, jr.2
1 Departmental of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 43403, USA
2 Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, USA
16h30-16h55 Transposable elements intra-genomic ecology – Abstract
Arnaud Le Rouzic
16h55-17h20 TRUE TEETH WILL NEVER BE RESUSCITATED IN BIRDS – Abstract
Jean-Yves Sire (1), Sidney Delgado (1) and Marc Girondot (2)
(1) UMR 7138, CNRS/Universite Pierre & Marie Curie, Case 7077, 75005 Paris, France
(2) UMR 8079, CNRS/Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
17h20-17h45 The rôle of environment on genome evolution
Etienne Danchin, Verane Vitiello, Philippe Gouret, Pierre Pontarotti
DINER – VIEUX PORT

September 22,
PHYLOGEOGRAPHY
09h00-09h25 Atlas bear population genetic through ancient DNA analyses
Sebastien Calvignac, Sandrine Hughes, Christelle Toughard, Jacques Michaux, Michel Thevenot,
Watik Hamdine and Catherine Hanni
09h25-09h50 A phylogenetic approach to the study of grass (poceae) diversification and evolution – Abstract
Y. Bouchenak-Khelladi, N. Salamin, M. Kinney, V. Savolainen and T. Hodkinson
Department of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Jodrell Laboratory, Molecular Systematics Section, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England
09h55-10h20 Study of clonal diversity, genome instability and genetically instable loci in parthogenetic
caucasian rock lizards, Genus Darevskia – Abstract
Martirosyan I.A., Korchagin V.I., Malysheva D.N., Badaeva T.N., Tokarskaya O.N., Darevsky I.S.,
Ryskov A.P.
Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Vavilov str. 34/5, 119334, Russia
10h20-10h40 FLASHES PRESENTATION pp4, pp5, pp6, pp7
10h40-11h40 BREAK-POSTERS SESSION
11h40-12h05 Host plants and organisation of diversity in phytophageous insects, from evolutionary
radiations to population processes: the case of bruchid beetle genus acanthoscelides
schilsky (coleoptera) – Abstract
Nadir Alvarez, Martine Hossaert-Mckey and Betty Benrey
12h05-12h30 Population genomic test for divergence-with-gene-flow demonstrates that ecological
speciation does occur in the wild – Abstract
Igor Emelianov
Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division – Rothamsted Research – Harpenden – Hertfordshire
AL5 2JQ ENGLAND
12h30-14h30 LUNCH
14h30-14h55 Phylogeography and genetic diversity of the tree leaf beetle, oreina cacaliae, o. speciosa,
o. gloriosa in Europe – Abstract
Andrea grill
14h55-15h20 Conservation genetics of the Jamaican yellow boa (epicrates subflowers) – Abstract
Athanasia Tzika, Christophe Remy, Michel C. Milinkovitch
Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM)
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Rue Jeener and Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
15h20-15h45 Inferring levels of gene flow and demographic history from mitochondrial DNA variation
in a local population of the leaf beetle gonioctena olivacea – Abstract
Patrick Mardulyn & Michel C. Milinkovitch
Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM)
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Rue Jeener & Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
15h45-16h45 BREAK-POSTER SESSION
16h45-17h10 Conservation genetics of giant Galapagos tortoises (Espanola island): molecular data
prompts modification of the breeding programme – Abstract
Michel C. Milinkovitch, Daniel Monteyne, James P. Gibbs, Thomas H. Fritts, Washington Tapia,
Howard L. Snell, Ralph Tiedemann, Adalgisa Caccone and Jeffrey R. Powell
17h10-17h35 Evolutionary genetics of Zaprionus.I. molecular and quantitative genetics
analyses of a newly invasive drosophil, Zaprionus, in Egypt – Abstract
Rakha, F.A., Yasin, A.E., S.A. Riad, Abdel-Azziz and A.Y Abou-Youssef
17h35-18h00 Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity of Nile Delta and Bahariya Oasis populations –
more stepping stones on the “Out of Africa” passageway through the Levant – Abstract
Eric Bouzaïd(1), Rym Kéfi(1), Alain Stévanovitch(2), Catherine Le Chalony(3), François Paris(4),
Roland-Pierre Gayraud(5), Jean-Yves Empereur(6), Frédéric Colin(7) and Eliane Béraud-Colomb(1)
1: Laboratoire d’Immunologie, Marseille, 2: Laboratoire de Police Scientifique, Marseille,
3: Institut Curie-Recherche, Paris, 4: UR088, IRD, Tunis, Tunisie,
5:Laboratoire d’Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne, Aix-en-Provence,
6:Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines, Alexandrie, Egypte, 7: Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
COCKTAIL

September 23
EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION
09h00-09h25 Diversity and adaptation in oceanic picoalgal ecotypes – Abstract
Yves Desdevises1, Aude Houdan2, Evelyne Derelle1, Herve Moreau1 and Daniel Vaulot2
1 Laboratoire Arago – UMR CNRS 7628 : Modeles en biologie cellulaire et evolutive
BP 44, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer Cedex, France
2 Station Biologique de Roscoff
UMR CNRS 7628 : Adaptation et diversite en milieu marin
Place Georges Teissier – BP74, 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France
09h25-09h50 Evolution of the vertebrate jaw from developmental prespectives – Abstract
Shigeru Kuratani1, Yoko Takio1, and Yasuyo Shigetani2
1 Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, JAPAN
2 National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London
09h50-10h15 A unified approach to measuring biological information – Abstract
Bill Sherwin (1) and Franck Jabot (1,2)
(1) University of NSW, Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
(2) Ecole Polytechnique 91128 palaiseau Cedex Paris FRANCE
10h15-11h15 BREAK POSTER SESSION
11h15-11h40 Genetic investigation of the rapid evolution of ovariole number – Abstract
Virginie Orgogozo, David Stern
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
11h40-12h05 Sociality in carnivorans: ecological advantage, evolutionary liability – Abstract
Joao Munoz-Duran
Instituto de Biologia, Universidad de Antioquia
12h05-12h30 Butterfly life-history and temperature adaptations – Abstract
Bengt Karlsson1 (co-authors: 1Christer Wiklund and Hans Van Dyck)2
1 Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm
2 Biodiversity Research Centre – Catholic University of Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
12h30-14h30 LUNCH
PHYLOGENY AND BIOINFORMATICS
14h30-14h55 A comparison of methods constructing evolutionary networks from
intraspecific DNA sequences – Abstract
Insa Cassens, Patrick Mardulyn & Michel C. Milinkovitch
Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM),
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Rue Jeener & Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
14h55-15h20 Validity of the GTR nucleotide substitution model in simulated and real data – Abstract
Laurent Gatto, Daniele Catanzaro & Michel C. Milinkovitch
Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM)
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Rue Jeener & Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
15h20-15h45 MetaPIGA2.0b, a software for very large phylogeny inference under maximum
likelihood – Abstract
Michel C. Milinkovitch 1*, Daniele Catanzaro 1, Raphael Helaers 1 & Alan R. Lemmon 2
1. Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology & Medicine (IBMM),
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Rue Jeener et Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
15h45-16h10 BREAK-POSTERS SESSION
16h10-16h35 A general model for context-dependent mutations
Gilles Didier
Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille
16h35-17h35 A general method for estimating the transition probability matrix under the GTR
model of DNA sequence evolution – Abstract
Laurent Gatto, Daniele Catanzaro & Michel C. Milinkovitch
Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM)
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Rue Jeener & Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
DEBREEFING

….. And for those who would like to discover a wonderful place, we organise on Saturday 24th of Sepember for a very nice ballad in one of the most beatiful calanques of Marseilles, Sugiton?( to have a look at it, you can go on this web site: http://www.web-provence.com/balades/sugiton-12.htm )

PRESENTED POSTERS
GENOME EVOLUTION
Presented poster 1 The TC1-like family of DNA transposons: distribution, phylogeny and evolutionary
dynamics – Abstract
Claudio Casola1, Silvia Marracci1, Stefania Bucci1, Matilde Ragghianti1, Gaston-Denis Guex2,
Hansjurg Hotz2, Thomas Uzzell3, Giorgio Mancino1
1 Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica,
Universita di Pisa, Italy
2 Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
3 Biodiversity Research Group, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA
Presented poster 2 Functional consequences of genome duplication in fishes
G. Brunet 1, Mathilde Paris 1, Jean-Marc Aury 3, Patricia Gibert 4, Olivier Jaillon 3,
Hugues Roest Crollius 2, Vincent Laudet 1, Marc Robinson-Rechavi 1
1: Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire de la Cellule, INRA LA 1237, CNRS UMR5161, Ecole Normale
Superieure de Lyon, IFR 128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 46 allee d’Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07 France
2: Dyogen Group, CNRS UMR8541, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
3: Structure et evolution des genomes, CNRS UMR8030, Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux CP5706,
91057 Evry cedex, France 4: Laboratoire de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR5558, Universite
Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
PHYLOGEOGRAPHY
Presented poster 3 Phylogeography of sibling species of capitella capitata complex in Bohai and Yellow Sea,
China – Abstract
Jie Han, Kuixuan Lin and Xiaomin Qu
College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China
Presented poster 4 Phylogeography and conservation genetics of small coastal cetecean from southern
hemisphere waters
Insa Cassens, Sabrina Rosa, Koen Van Waerebeek and Michel C. Milinkovitch
EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION
Presented poster 5 Temperature adaptation in melanargia galathea (lepidoptera, nymphalidae) – Abstract
Gabriel Neve, Clement Poirier et Sofie Vandewoestijne
Laboratoire Evolution Genome Environnement
Université de Provence – 3 Place Victor Hugo – 13331 Marseille Cedex 3
Presented poster 6 Molecular evidence brings the roots of the secernentea, the major group of round worms
in shaper focus – Abstract
Rusin L.Y.1, Gagarin V.G.2, Blaxter M.3, Aleshin V.V.1
1 Belozersky Institute for Physicochemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
2 Papanin Institute for the Biology of Inland Waters, 152742 Borok Nekouz, Yaroslavl, Russia
3 Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, EH9 3JT Edinburgh, UK
Presented poster 7 Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate multiple independent emergences of parasitism
in myzostamida (spiralia) – Abstract
Deborah Lanterbecq,1 Greg W. Rouse,2 Igor Eeckhaut1, & Michel C. Milinkovitch3*
1 2 South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Adelaide, SA. 5000 Australia
3 Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM), Université
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Rue Jeener & Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
PHYLOGENY AND BIOINFORMATICS
Presented poster 8 Phylogenetic signal vs. informational noise: combat for resolution – Abstract
L.Y. Rusin1,2, V.V. V’yugin1, V.A. Lyubetsky1
1 Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy Karetnyi
per. 19, 127994 Moscow, Russia
2 Belozersky Institute for Physicochemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia

POSTERS
Poster 20 Activity of transposable element: relationship of mariner and the geneticbackground of the host
Abstract
Picot S., Hua-Van A., Bazin C., Capy P
Poster 21 Houbara Bustard’s captive breeding in Morocco: Examples of Conservation genetics studies on
avian endangered species
Abstract
Amal Korrida
The IFCDW, Genetics Department, P.O. Box 116 Agadir, The Kingdom of Morocco.
Poster 22 Delving into Ascidiacea mtDNA: preliminary data from three newly completed genomes
Abstract
Fabio Iannelli, Carmela Gissi, Francesca Griggio and Graziano Pesole
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita di Milano, Italy
Poster 23 Diversification of satellite DNA variants in donax trunculus genome – Abstract
Vlakta Petrovic and Miroslav Plohl.
Poster 24 Tracing back the history of island endemic drosophila sechellia – Abstract
Legrand Delphine, Lachaise Daniel, Maczkowiak Frederique, Robillard Emilie, Cariou Marie-Louise
Populations, Genetique et Evolution- UPR 9034. CNRS. 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex France
Poster 25 Sex determination of bear by molecular analysis: application on faeces and ancient bones
Marie Pages
Poster 26 Instability of microsatellite loci in parthogenetic lizard darevskia armeniaca (lacertidae) – Abstract
Daria Nikolaevna Malysheva
Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119334, Russia
Poster 27 Male-killing in the eleven spot ladybird, Coccinella unidecimpunctata from the Middle East – Abstract
S.M.Elnagdy1, M.M. Majerus2
1. PhD. Student, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
2. Reader in Evolution, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
Poster 28 Is macrosatellite evolution different among insect orders ? – Abstract
Emese Meglecz et al.
Laboratoire Evolution Genome Environnement – Universite de Provence – 3 Place Victor Hugo
13331 Marseille Cedex 3
Poster 29 The Study of Vitellaria of Digenean Haploporus sp. (Trematodes: Platyhelminthes) – Abstract
Doctor Majid Sampour
Department of Biology University of Luristan, Khramabad, IRAN
Poster 30 C.A.S.S.I.O.P.E: Clever Agent System for Synteny Inheritance and Other Phenomena in Evolution.
Automatic answering to complex genomic questions
Virginie Lopez
Phylogenomics Lab. EA 3781 EGEE (Evolution, Genome, Environment), University of Provence, Case 36,
Pl. V. Hugo, 13331 Marseilles Cedex 3. France
Poster 31 Improvement of crucial steps of the intelligent automated genomic annotation pipeline FIGENIX
Abstract
Magali LIENART, Philippe Gouret
Phylogenomics Lab. EA 3781 EGEE (Evolution, Genome, Environment), University of Provence, Case 36,
Pl. V. Hugo, 13331 Marseilles Cedex 3. France
Poster 32 Searching for conserved syntenies: mathematical model and statisatical tests
Simona Grusea
L.A.T.P., Centre de Mathematiques et d’Informatique, University of Provence, 39, rue F.Joliot-Curie,
13453 Marseilles, cedex 13
Poster 33 In search of genes controlling mild malaria resistance: TNF as a candidate gene – Abstract
laurence Flori, INRA
Poster 34 Evolution of Par6/Pals interaction domains involved in cell polarity – Abstract
Champion serge (1), Navagas lionel (2)
(1) Faculte de Pharmacie – 27, bd Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille Cedex 5
(2) Association pour l’Etude de l’Evolution Biologique Laboratoire EGEE – 3, pl. victor Hugo 13331 Marseille cedex 3
Poster 35 In silico identification of oocyte specific genes expressed in mouse, cow, chicken and trout:
compared functional analysis
Dade sebastien – Email
Inra – Tours